Domestic Violence Legal Services
Services for people experiencing domestic violence or abuse, including protection orders, enforcement, safety planning, reporting, and related legal supports.
More About This Legal Services Area
This category covers information and services for people facing domestic or intimate-partner violence, stalking, harassment, coercive control, or child abuse within the family or household. It includes pathways to immediate safety and legal protection (e.g., protection/restraining orders and temporary orders for custody, residence, communication, or support), as well as enforcement of existing orders and documentation of violations. It also spans help with reporting abuse to authorities, connecting to shelters and crisis lines, and obtaining immigration or benefits relief where abuse affects legal status or eligibility. In practice, common workflows include: screening for danger and urgent needs; safety planning and referrals; preparing declarations and supporting evidence; completing and filing protection-order forms; arranging service of process and court appearances; enforcing orders (contempt or modification); and coordinating related issues such as emergency housing, school changes, benefits, or family-law orders. For first-time users, plain-language explanations clarify what protection orders do, what evidence is useful, how hearings work, what to expect after filing, and how to get help if an order is violated. For implementers and evaluators, this category benefits from trauma-informed design (clear consent, minimal PII, quick-exit), multilingual access, and strong handoffs to human advocates. Typical data elements include incident timeline, relationship to respondent, current safety risks, children or dependents, prior orders, police reports, medical notes, and service status.
LIST (Legal Issues Taxonomy) Code
Code: FA-07-00-00-00 View on taxonomy.legal
AI Projects around this Legal Issue
Malawi Legal Chatbot
A WhatsApp chatbot that gives first responders vetted legal information and connects at-risk women and girls to volunteer lawyers for free support.
Maria
A free, privacy-preserving AI chatbot from Honduras’ State Secretariat for Security (with UNDP/Infosegura and USAID support) that helps women, girls, and adolescents identify gender-based violence, understand options, and connect to appropriate services, including Linea 114.
Sophia Chat
A confidential, 24/7 AI chatbot from Swiss NGO Spring ACT that provides expert-reviewed information on domestic violence, safety planning, legal options, and connections to local services—available anonymously worldwide in 25+ languages.
Violetta
A Spanish-language, supervised-ML WhatsApp chatbot that helps users name and understand relationship violence, get tailored guidance, and connect anonymously to human support (including the “Purple Line”) and legal resources in Mexico.
Malawi Lawyer's Assistant
A lawyer-supported WhatsApp tool that turns survivor narratives (in local languages) into draft, legally compliant affidavits to accelerate protection-order applications.
AinoAid
An EU-funded chatbot that offers victims and frontline professionals fast, privacy-preserving guidance on domestic/partner violence, risk awareness, and connections to services—while collecting anonymized signals to improve institutional response.